[Culturechat] Daughter's Day

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:41:16 EST

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In the Seventies, there was a semi-famous episode of the TV show "All in the 
Family" that had the following riddle.  A father and son were traveling by 
car.  They were in a traffic accident.  The father was killed.  The son was 
injured and needed emergency surgery.  The boy was taken into the operating 
room at the local hospital.  The surgeon, upon arriving in the operating 
room, said "I cannot operate on this boy because he is my son."    Who is the 
surgeon?  

I recently asked my daughter this question.  She finally got it, but I was 
amazed at how long it took her--30 years after the All in the Family episode 
originally aired--to grasp the obvious answer.  

Jeffrey Brown

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I recently asked my daughter this question.&nbsp; She finally got it, but I was amazed at how long it took her--30 years after the All in the Family episode originally aired--to grasp the obvious answer.&nbsp; <BR>
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Jeffrey Brown</FONT></HTML>

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